RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1845.03. What is the highest form of any class? CUL-DAR205.9.200. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].
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March 1845
What is the highest form of any class?
Not that which has undergone most changes, for change may reduce organization: — generally however, that which has undergone most changes & which approaches nearest to man (?) Hardly applicable to insects or plants — Each perfect for its end, so not most perfect — "complications not of homologous organs." "combined, when comparisons with man as a model"
Perfect adaptation comes in idea.
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